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Aural Rehabilitation

Aural Rehabilitation

Aural rehabilitation or “aural rehab” is the process of identifying and diagnosing a hearing loss and then providing different types of therapies to patients who are hearing impaired.

We use aural rehab in our practice as an important component in the overall care of our patients. We don’t just see our patients as a set of ears disconnected from the overall person. We know that there is much more to you than your hearing loss.
The goal of all aural rehab therapies is to assist anyone with a hearing loss to overcome or learn to compensate for any problems caused by a hearing loss.

Trust your hearing care to a practice that views you as an individual who happens to be hearing impaired and not just a set of ears.

The many different types of aural rehabilitation therapies:

Hearing aid orientation: The process of providing education and therapies to persons (individual or group) and their families about the use and expectations of wearing hearing aids to improve communication.

Listening strategies: The process of teaching someone who has a hearing loss different strategies when listening with or without amplification to improve their ability to communicate.

Speechreading: The process of using or teaching the understanding of communication using visual cues observed from the speaker’s mouth, facial expressions, and hand movements.

Auditory Training: The process of teaching an individual with a hearing loss the ability to recognize speech sounds, patterns, words, phrases, or sentences via audition.

Unisensory: Therapy philosophy that centers on extreme development of a single sense for improving communication.

Steps included in an aural rehabilitation program for an adult:

Assessment and impact of hearing loss

Assessment for the use of hearing aids and/or assistive listening devices